How Roger Goodell's $200 Million Payday Compares To America's Top CEOs

Thu, 12/07/2017 - 09:24 EDT - Forbes.com - Top Stories

Roger Goodell's projected paycheck is three times the average CEO last year at America's biggest companies. A reward for average team profit of $101 million and franchise value of $2.5 billion, three times the levels when Goodell took office in 2006.

MUMBAI: A subdued economy has not only hit the man on the street but also top execs in the corner office by slowing their entry into the million-dollar salary club.According to a study by EMA Partners, commissioned byTOI, only one executive was added to their list of CEOs who took home a million dollars (about Rs 6.5 crore) in compensation in 2016-17. Global executive search firm EMA Partners tracks the earnings of CEOs/ CXOs across top 200 listed companies in India for TOI.

Next time you're contemplating the pay gap between male and female executives, put this fact in your pipe and smoke it: The highest-paid woman CEO was born a man. That's what the New York Times' Claire Cain Miller observed in her recent article about a study of CEO pay.

By Anders Melin and Wei LuChief executive officers in the US are paid much better than their peers abroad, and the gap between their compensation and that of average American workers is wider than in other countries.CEOs of the biggest publicly traded US companies averaged $14.3 million in annual pay, more than double that of their Canadian counterparts and 10 times greater than those in India, according to a Bloomberg analysis that used benchmark stock indexes in 22 nations.CEOs of companies listed in India's Sensex Index still earn 229 times more than the average worker there, the second-bi

Ron Jenkins/APA contract extension for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is reportedly being held up by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen.
Schefter and Mortensen reported that Jones has "impeded" progress on an extension, with one source saying that the deal would be done if not for Jones.

Let the hyperventilating over CEO pay begin. Thanks to auto parts magnate Frank Stronach and the tidy US$52-million he pocketed in consulting fees from Magna International Inc. last year, the annual outrage over runaway CEO pay should be off to a resounding start.

As the economy melted down last year, so did CEO paychecks. The average compensation for 200 chief executives at America's largest public companies fell 5.1% last year to $10.8 million, according to a survey published Sunday by the New York Times and research firm Equilar. The decline marked the first time in five years that top executives' pay packages shrank compared to the year before.